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I
really
love
lists.
They
cut
right
to
the
chase,
maximize
your
time
and
immediately
get
to
the
heart
of
the
matter.
Michael
Sagalyn,
Business
Development
Leader
for
Social
Business
at
IBM,
led
the
fastest
paced
session
that
I
attended
at
IBM
ConnectED
2015.
I’ll
quickly
recap
the
ah-ha’s
and
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Welcome
to
“The
Social
Business
Frontier,”
a
video
blog
series
consisting
of
a
number
of
short
interviews
taking
a
deeper
look
inside
the
IBM
Research
Labs
to
explore
the
groundbreaking
and
innovative
social
analytics
research
that's
redefining
the
future
of
social
business.
In
this
episode,
Marie
Wallace,
IBM
Analytics
Strategist,
shares
... [ + Read more ]

60,000+
early
adopters
and
all
IBM
ConnectED
conference
attendees
will
experience
IBM
Verse
starting
in
February.
Dan
Davis
did
a
great
job
of
sharing the big news on Monday,
so
I
won’t
repeat
here.
What
I
WILL
share
is
that
IBM
Verse
was
the
belle
of
the
ball
in
Orlando
and
generated
lots
of
buzz
... [ + Read more ]

As
IBM
ConnectED
2015
got
underway
today
in
Orlando,
FL,
IBM
Verse
was
again
in
the
spotlight,
this
time
during
Jeff
Schick’s
general
session
on
A
New
Way
to
Engage.
Schick,
IBM
General
Manager
of
Enterprise
Social
Solutions,
spoke
about
improving
the
way
we
work
and
collaborate,
which
is
precisely
... [ + Read more ]

What
you
need
to
know
for
IBM
ConnectED
Special
AskJim
Podcast
Episode
The
AskJim
Podcast
Providing
5-minute
answers
to
user
questions
about
IBM
Connections
This
is
the
exclusive
podcast
focused
on
IBM
Connections
–
the
#1
ranked
business
collaboration
platform.
With
IBM ConnectED 2015
coming
up,
now
is
the
time
to
begin
planning
your
agenda
... [ + Read more ]

Social
Business
Unboxed
Stories
of
Insight
&
Success
in
Digital
Engagement
Unboxing
Insights
In
this
episode
of
Social
Business
Unboxed,
Manish
Goel,
CEO
of
TrustSphere
(An
IBM
Social
Business
Partner)
and
Vice-Chairman
of
the
Online
Trust
Alliance
Board
of
Directors,
unboxes
relationship
analytics
in
social
business.
Manish
explains
this
growing
field
of
analytics,
... [ + Read more ]

The
changes
coming
to
the
workplace
are
huge
and
can't
be
overstated.
They
remind
me
of
Joe’s
journey
from
one
of
my
favorite
films
of
all
time,
Joe
Versus
the
Volcano.
In
the
movie,
Tom
Hanks’s
character
Joe
Banks
works
in
a
comic
rendition
of
a
traditional
20th
century
workplace
where
... [ + Read more ]

I
just
received
an
email
from
NRF
asking
me
to
please
provide
my
feedback
on
its
2015
Annual
Convention.
Rather
than
fill
out
an
anonymous
automated
survey
I
thought
I
would
take
the
social
business
mentality
to
heart
and
share
my
thoughts
on
this
blog.
I
walked
the
many
floors
of
... [ + Read more ]

Meet
Shane,
an
award-winning
entrepreneur
and
journalist,
the
bestselling
author
of
Smartcuts:
How
Hackers,
Innovators,
and
Icons
Accelerate
Success,
and
the
Chief
Creative
Officer
of
Contently,
a
technology
company
he
co-founded
in
2010
with
the
mission
to
create
a
better
media
world.
Shane
recently
presented
at
the
launch
of
IBM Verse
... [ + Read more ]

After
spending
three
days
at
the
enormous
Jacob
Javits
Center
in
NYC
attending
NRF’s
2015
Annual
Convention,
there’s
one
thing
I
can
say
for
certain:
My
feet
hurt!
After
walking
through
the
maze
of
exhibitors
(from
the
latest
in
RFID
development
to
the
world’s
smartest
checkout
scanner)
and
sitting
in
back-to-back-to-back
... [ + Read more ]

Social
Business
Unboxed
Stories
of
Insight
&
Success
in
Digital
Engagement
Unboxing
Insights
In
this
episode
of
Social
Business
Unboxed,
Simon
Mainwaring
(Founder
&
Chief
Creative
Officer,
We
First
Branding)
and
Maria
Huntalas
(Sr.
Marketing
Manager
of
Social
Business,
IBM),
unbox
insights
on
the
WeFirst
Summit,
how
organizations
can
spark
relationships
with
... [ + Read more ]

It
turns
out
that
collaboration
is
in
our
biology.
Since
tribal
days
to
modern
corporate
life,
we
are
hardwired
to
act
cooperatively.
What
brings
about
collaboration
is
the
context.
Let’s
look
at
this
from
a
work
perspective.
If
the
work
environment
supports
a
“beat
or
be
beat”
mentality,
we’re
not
... [ + Read more ]

IBM
ConnectED
is
less
than
three
weeks
away!
In
order
to
make
sure
we
covered
the
topics
our
customers
and
business
partners
want
to
hear
about,
we
used
an
IBM
Connections
ideation
blog
in
the
Social
Business
User
Group
as
a
way
to
guide
our
selection
of
topics.
Below
are
... [ + Read more ]

Sports
are
big
business.
That’s
not
anything
new
or
surprising—it’s
been
a
fact
of
the
sports
world
for
decades.
From
ticket
sales
to
merchandise
to
premium
TV
and
streaming
subscriptions,
pro
(in
particular,
but
not
exclusively)
sports
teams
have
many
ways
of
extracting
billions
of
dollars
and
euros
and
yen
... [ + Read more ]